1. Foreword; 2. From Languages to Philology to Linguistics (by Agard, Frederick B.); 3. First Person, Not Singular (by Bolinger, Dwight); 4. My Linguistic Autobiography (by Chao, Yuen Ren); 5. American Linguistics in Peace and at War (by Cowan, J Milton); 6. A Nova Scotian Becomes a Linguistic Indologist (by Emeneau, Murray B.); 7. My Life through My Work; My Work through My Life (by Fishman, Joshua A.); 8. Six Decades of a Linguistic Audience (by Garvin, Paul L.); 9. On Being a Linguistic Anthropologist (by Greenberg, Joseph H.); 10. Layers of Linguistics (by Hall, Jr., Robert A.); 11. A Linguist's Vita as Historiography (by Kahane, Henry); 12. How I Discovered Linguistics (by Newman, Stanley S.); 13. My Linguistic Odyssey (by Nida, Eugene A.); 14. Must Linguists Also Be Philologists? (by Penzl, Herbert); 15. From Philology to Language and Culture (by Polome, Edgar C.); 16. A Personal Journey through Linguistics (by Read, Allan Walker); 17. Index of Biographical Names; 18. Index of Subjects and Languages; 19. Location of photographs; 20. Frederick B. Agard (1974); 21. Dwight Bolinger (in front of his house in Palo Alto, Calif., 1989); 22. Yuen Ren Chao (picture taken in Berkeley, Calif., in 1977); 23. J Milton Cowan (1990); 24. Murray B. Emeneau (c.1965); 25. Joshua A. Fishman (c.1975); 26. Paul L. Garvin (photograph taken by Antoinette Mucilli, Buffalo, N.Y., in October 1990); 27. Joseph H. Greenberg (1990); 28. Robert A. Hall, Jr. (1989); 29. Henry Kahane (1989); 30. Stanley S. Newman (c.1980); 31. Eugene A. Nida (c.1975); 32. Herbert Penzl (in his office at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1990); 33. Edgar C Polome (1987); 34. Allen Walker Read (picture taken on 12 November 1987)